To commemorate Remembrance Day we got together with our friends in P1 for a Buddy session.  We helped P1 to create some poppy art by printing with potatoes. P1 worked really hard and were very proud of their finished artwork.

Today we enjoyed a taster session of Taekwondo with a visiting instructor. We learned how to punch safely, how to do sidekicks and how to most importantly have fun whilst keeping active. Below are some pictures of us in action.

Today we took part in a whole day event called Climate Ready Classrooms which encouraged us to think of the harm climate change is causing and what we can do to to may a positive difference to help protect our world. We participated in online discussions and workshops with pupils from schools all across East Renfrewshire. We also worked in pairs to complete scavenger hunts around the school to discover where we could be saving energy. We then explored our school grounds to notice the diverse life which surrounds us such as plants, trees, flowers and insects. Later in the day we took part in tasks such as matching animals to their role in the food chain. We even had time to dress Lewis up as the earth and let him experience the impact of green house gasses by dressing him in up in lots of clothes! Finally we made posters to show what we have learned about Climate Ready Classrooms and made an action plan of pledges to show what we can do as a class to slow down climate change. It was a very different but fun day!

This week  we have been busy celebrating Maths Week Scotland. We started the week by learning about tessellations. We looked at the work of the artist Escher who used lots of tessellations in his art. We then created our own fantastic tessellations.  Here are a few of our finished designs.

Also this week we did something a little different when carrying out our calculations. We entered our answers into a spreadsheet to reveal some cool pictures. Take a look at the finished article.

We also took part in the Maths Week Scotland Writing Challenge. We have been busy writing adventure stories based on the Mascot Finn Finity who loves all things number.

To end the week we participated in an Escape Room challenge. We had to work in groups to solve lots of calculations to escape the Maths Bakery. Well done to our winning team of Ada, Charlotte and Sophie. 🌟

Welcome to our first blog post of Primary 5. Everyone has been working hard and we are now settling into our new class routines and getting back into the swing of school life. We have been busy discussing Children’s Rights and have created our Class Charter. We have also begun creating some new artwork to personalise our classroom. Please visit regularly to keep up to date with the fantastic work we will be doing over the session.